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Yesterday: Larry appears in a new ear; hinta Pat conld influence traffic court officers.

by CHAPTER SEVEN

NVELOPED in one of her mother’s big aprons, Pat added another place at the table; made an extra salad, shced Mrs. MecGraw’'s rich, moist chocolate fudge cake on a best plate—company touches since Larry had accepted the invitation to stay for dinner. Even while she hurried around the warm kitchen sniffing the tan- : : : BOVYs ARE talizin odors of cooking food, | ba : AN ia A rrr to the voices of the boys 3 i =r ™ 2 i JO Ng i ssi $s iv R : discussing the latest automotive = IN HIS OLD

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refrain in\ her brain. | FLAPPER FANNY By Sylvia “Those boys in thie know could y RT - ; : ian BING R_ | AHCANT) WE GOTTA HANK'-TH’ 7 'NUFE” ” and prosecutors can be influenced | Ea IRONS SN I uD a PN SHOOT HEAD STAR FAMILY INSULTED So TE SHG | Ma hE by the right\ powers—” “Even a , EF YO'H APPENS FRIEND A-GQIl yr AH CAINT r ME, TOO PAPPY SHO’ AT OLE \ GRAN PAPPY, TH HEAD ©’ HAFTA \AT TH YOKUMS, / FELIDS-AM pretty pair of yeves ifke yours—" » ® ) T'WIPE US OUT/ AH EVAH * 3 SHOOT HANK! \BUT IT'S THCODE ) NUFF! | LUCIFER!-) OUR FAMLYZ” FOLKSLL. “\ AIM AT | BUT AIM AT“ FEUDS/-AH The pent 1901 WAS HaSRe Sly. | 2 § AH LOVES HIM) O' TH HILLS? WELLJEST] ~ AM { THINK WE HAIN'T RESPECTABLE ) ‘EM-= { TH' SKY.” GOT A BEAD ON Even Lany’s learly leave-taking 4 REA r VE GOTTA SHOOT )AMUP IN CAINT/ EF WE DONT SHOOT _ UNNER - *{ LIL ABNER'S failed to arouse \her. ait wv / BROTHER! ph LT WE TH AIR’ A AT EM = i , STAN’? HAID “AH’LL “Have some work tc do,” he ex- FER : pA ps DONT AETA MY rE SN A — ib. BLOW IT OFF” plained, “and I pups you'll want / fr | > _@ 2 ’ WAY FO’ Z> im - to get at those! nodes you spoke 2 / YARS AN’ / about.” : = She nodded. \ “Yes, I must finish them tonight.” ' She welcomed the work, (burying herself in it until sleepinesséclouded her eves and \made her. fingers weary. The next) morning, though,’ she was glad to ste them all typed and ready for the day. Best to start with a clean slate. It was on the bus) that morning > she saw a morning paper ver a § Ng : : s S A v her .e= ' N od | Z Tre ven Seamed the 1ead Stories. Then 5 i Ry Cr MOC; TR A CE C5 SISK Tak AN YEINTRAY one stood out, headlines seemingly ee ; 3 . NN i 77 ED ME "IN a in fire. Isolated words leaped s a | A a eL.AN NN JUMPED OUT OF THE . 88 TH COMPOSITION FOR NOT HAVIN at her, ; . 7 | A . = % BUSHES AT ME---SO 1 2 , ANY IMAGINATION! “Hit-runner caught—"} “Witness [ 3 tie QUICK CLIMBED UP A POLE § wi returning from week-end away gives ; AN' HAD TO CRAWL TO / police necessary clew—,” ‘(Falesman ; SCHOOL ALONG THE arrested,” “Car traced by yloosened K A\ , '‘LECTRIC. WIRES, fender.” “Kent refuses to) discuss np = AND --= charge.” \ 2 ® ® 5 NOMEHOW all these past \hours S she had known that eventually these would be the words she ‘would Jens i prio Ih is “Gee, we had fun! Fan, promise me right now vou'll give ME a sur- ; I actual printed presence hit herflike | prise party wiy fest hitthuay, t NR Bt y > L TT | da Nn Sind Hie draped : == re ) ‘ . 3% Tm. Reg. U. 8. Pat. OF. —AM rights reserved s TERNIE BUSHACI LEP: mm

a physical blow. | GRIN AND BEAR IT By U a : hy ‘ < icht = : And larry's attitude these past ——— y Y THERE, DIDN'T I TELL YOU HE 7 CRAZY EASY! OH, MY GOSH! ST] WA TH WASH PLEASE FORGE MERE. ow W PALL JAY POOR 507 THERE AT

few days; that was what madey her Z| WAS CHANGED ? WE DOESN'T AS A 2Y on) VOU EVEN KNOW VOUR TUBS. T I Bir I i ie Rh EVEN RECOGNIZE US. yg og BUG BEST FRIEND? (oo, a Ton ar} Teton tr SET BUDDIE! ne gg Sas other side of town—his calm state- ow 4 " WOT | | over TW WORLD | FRACTURED MY SKULL OWN Ses x ONLY THREE io ow : : > WITH You! RECENTLY. WHAT'D YoU AS LULU BELLE, '/ HOURS TILL

ment made so easily. His quiet, explanation of the rattling fender the SAY MY NAME WAS ? ICAL Ge GOTTA = VER WEDD? SUMPIN'S

night of the dance, and his equally unperturbed explanation of the new cAr vesterday afternoon. Larry, her fiance, the boy she loved, the bov she was to mxarry in a few months. Desperately she tried to understand him now. Fear, blind and unreasonable fear must have driven him to such action. Her thoughts whirled. Automatically she entered the office. Her hands shook and the rouge on her cheeks stood out in two

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judge called a recess and in that time she had captured a sem- 5 blance of poise. The few moments of free time found court gossip turning to the prospect of an examination of Kent. Morning papers had arrived and Sweeney read snatches of the story to big Sergt. Lewoski. “Examination probably tomorrow,” he said. “The judge wants to go to Metropolitan Hospital this afernoon lo lake testimony fromi «- suppose all these new mechanical things and machines will throw an injured man who has been a lot of soldiers out of work” there a couple of weeks. He's try- 6 P- : * 1 1 so f thes _ ing Jn, Sean up some o ese Seer THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson “Gives this zuy Kent time to line | SE ICRA NAT OS up a lawyer, too,” the sergeant said. : AINE Arne A x EON “Hell be dumb enough to try] : R v * Age : > LR RET building up some screwy defense.” ) I : Ti Tet. ’ Tom nodded. “Sure. We know 4 evn s. BIRDS that. Only this time the guy's got " NW ids, TAILS to have a swell one. Every addi-| x > CAN BE

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it worse for him. The time will take y FURL ED, explaining. Ill be glad to work = on this.” ISED, LOWERED,

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BUNGLING FOOL - DIAMONDS ARE HAVE KNOWN, BENSON! | DON'T 5 . SHOOT! WHAT SAY, BABEE, YOU LAK MAY LOOK AT THEES! LY GLASS! Same. RON TL | I-TVE GOT LEETLE VISIT TO TUE 8& [ ga Jo FOL ope Tag 7 YOU TEN A BETTER SPIDER'S VILLAR LOCK | ad SECONDS — DEA! SO M0 CKED IN THE LINER! . > - PAY you WELL

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\ w. “Going to grab a sandwich?” he OR. oo ICAVE WHERE'S BoOTS # WoND' , iy ight | AND : CR 5 RNOW 2 1 HAUNT] | HE'S ONE OF TH FINEST MOST DECENT She shook her head. “Not right fh. is ROTATED WM TT] SEENER SINCE || GUNS 1 SNER SAW | OF COURSE , WE now.” She hurried to make an ex- PRE 78 YA 3 THAT "HANDY" ALL KNOW BOOTS WOLLON'T HAVE planation. “If we go to the hos- "on teed A “4 | 3 TAN GOT HERE || ANYTHING T'O0 WITH '\M \§ RE pital it will take up so much time WEREN'T wwe that I'll never get all these notes finished.” | “Oh, of course, Some other day! COPR. 1938 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. when we aren't so busy.” { She looked up gratefully. “Yes,]| I'll plan on it.” | {

ARE 4 SCIENTISTS LAN? She wondered if A would ever be able to plan RE LEARNING again. So many plans had been| ™ USE

made these past few months only] COCKROACHES to crash around her head in a few,| brief hours. No cloud was ever to INSTEAD OF RATS

have darkened her happiness with IN VARIOUS KINDS J DON T JUMP, BOy/!l-- iF YOU MISS Larry. Nothing was to interrupt, OF RESEARCH WORM, . h kis BY SO MUCH AS A HAIR fo RUN their arrangements for the near RRA J YOU OVER: I'M GOIN ¥

future. Things were so certain, running so smoothly. And now— The frightful possibilities crowded around her. The trial, the agony of testimony, of questions and cross | questions, the alibis, the fight for release, the fight for conviction, | the stories in the papers, and then| the verdict. If guilty, weeks, even | | months in prison. If not guilty in the eves of the] Be rm " . law, there would always be the ANSWER—In some portions of the earth the Ice Age has not ended yet. |

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y* t t Ss Ss i ! nanan » the lies and, car sideswiped by another, the her thoughts from that and con- | And vet he needed her; needed scream of brakes, the crash of glass, centrated on her notes. her as he never had before. Wasn't sha the car Iving on its side with the! She must call Larrv. She knew | that what real love was for? river pinned beneath. that even as she gathered her wraps She rode to the hospital with | In another room in the same 2bout her, closed her pad, and got Tom and the judge. hospital there was a child, her head up to join the others filing out of : [swathed in bandages, her breath the hospital. She must speak to x = = coming in such weak gasps as to be him, learn what he had to say, give , HE had gone through such pro- scarcely distinguishable, and near- him a chance to explain. THE NICEST, cedure before, vet today it held by would be a father facing a future, She must believe there was an a new meaning. The man's waxen with three motherless children. - (explanation, must give him her J EASIEST WAY face against the white of the pil-| Some place else in town was faith and love when he needed it ", T0 POUR low. his voice weak and hesitant Larry, questioned by police as to now more than ever before. AS struck her anew. Two weeks in the accident that had caused the] OFF CREAM

pain on that bed had taken toll. [death of the mother, and the seri-| (To Be Continued)

The story, too, Was an old one. ous injury of the child. Pat tore | (All YE an emaractens in this story

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